Mort Sahl Quotes

Remember that no matter how selfish, how cruel, how unfeeling you have been today, every time you take a breath, you make a flower happy.

Mort Sahl

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• I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Author

• One trap you can fall into when playing someone iconic is to end up doing everything in an iconic way, no matter how pedestrian or mundane that thing is.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Up
  • Fall
  • End

• You as an audience can look at these things as films, but I remember them as social experiences.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Remember
  • Audience
  • Look

• The first movie I can remember seeing in the theater was 'Return of the Jedi.' I can remember seeing Darth Vader's helmet come off. The shock of that moment.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Remember
  • Movie
  • Moment

• I remember driving the tractor on our farm, and Tim McGraw would be on the radio. I'd find myself walking out of class, singing his songs. And then Tim ended up playing my father in 'Friday Night Lights.' It was surreal.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Father

• I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Remember
  • American
  • Air

• One thing that did get me into a lot of different types of music was when I was very young, the local record store went out of business and they were selling off all the vinyl. I remember going in – I was probably 16 or 17 and I'd just gotten a record player as a present. It was like hitting the jackpot: all these records for $3 apiece.

  

  Imelda May
  • Music
  • Business
  • Remember

• It doesn't matter who they put in front of me, I just want people to remember me.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Remember
  • Want

• Normally, some people think about 50 as a big moment in life. I kind of think 30 because in your baseball career, 30 was considered on top kind of looking at the end of your career. So I remember thinking about 30 in different ways, but 50 just seems like another step right now.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• My first hero, as a teenager, was James Connolly. I remember discovering that he was a feminist, and that was an eye-opener, coming from a man of such poverty.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Remember
  • Man
  • Poverty

• I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.

  

  Sam Ervin
  • Country
  • Remember
  • War

• I visited the Pentagon a few days after September 11, and I still remember so vividly the smell of terror surrounding the entire building and complex. I was angry that such a brutal act of violence was committed against innocent people.

  

  Randy Forbes
  • People
  • Remember
  • Violence

• I remember when I met my wife and that she could just grab my hand and I would just ease. I don't know how to say that but it was one of the coolest things. It was strange, but it definitely changed my life.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Hand

• The Flower that once has blown forever dies.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Forever
  • Flower
  • Once

• When I joined the U.S. Army Reserve in 1992, there were no female four-star generals. I still remember the day in 2008 when a woman first achieved that rank.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Remember
  • Day
  • Star

• When planning your wedding you make so many decisions: 'Do I want this fork or that fork?' But in the end people aren't going to remember what napkin holder you choose.

  

  Lara Stone
  • People
  • Remember
  • End

• You're measured by championships no matter what.

  

  Candace Parker
  • You
  • Matter
  • Championships

• He touched me...Control myself and try to actAs if I remember my nameBut he touched me...he touched me...And suddenly nothing is the same!

  

  Ira Levin
  • Remember
  • Control

• Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do.

  

  Charles Jaffe
  • Matter
  • Faces
  • Investors

• Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Taken
  • Trust
  • Democracy

• In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, 'why don't I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,' and they abandon their values.

  

  Thich Nhat Hanh
  • Past
  • People
  • Style

• Remember that no matter how selfish, how cruel, how unfeeling you have been today, every time you take a breath, you make a flower happy.

  

  Mort Sahl
  • Remember
  • Matter
  • Flower